Friend's death gives Kentucky basketball's John Calipari a reason to wear red

5:43 PM,
Aug. 26, 2013

UK coach John Calipari.

Written by

Jonathan Lintner
jlintner@courier-journal.com

University of Kentucky coach John Calipari will wear a special shade of red on the sidelines this season.

Rick Corman, a UK booster and the owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, died Friday morning at age 58 after a decade-long battle with multiple myeloma. Corman outfitted most everything at his company in red, and Calipari said his good friend was the only person welcomed at UK's practices dressed like the rival.

"It's the second color I said I would never wear but ended up doing (brown was the other), but I promise I will never wear orange," Calipari wrote Monday on his blog at CoachCal.com. "Oh, ...